Edmonton Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner's play is the biggest uncertainty in the Stanley Cup Final

SUNRISE, Fla. — Stuart Skinner has taken to reading books as a way of taking his mind off the sport of hockey and his job as an NHL goaltender of getting in front of frozen rubber disks fired at him at 90-plus mph.

After three rounds of playoffs in which he has been at times unplayable to the point of being pulled and at other times nearly unbeatable, Skinner is the biggest question mark going into the series that starts Saturday night. Before that? Skinner had a 3.23 goals-against average and an .877 save percentage, and the Oilers were largely winning in spite of him.

"He’s a good goalie," Bobrovsky said. “You’re not going to make the final if you’re a bad goalie. He’s a good positional goalie and I think he’s very composed and he has a good mind.” “Certainly we believed in Stuart Skinner,” general manager Ken Holland said. “I think he’s one of the really good top young netminders in the game, and he took it from there.”“There hasn’t been very many poor performances, and when there has been a poor performance, he’s always responded,” coach Kris Knoblauch said.

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